The Nordic countries have a common AC network extending from north of the Article circle to mid-England latitudes. This distributes the wind production quite well.
Or Russian AC network.
The Baltic states are going to separate from the Russian AC net to connect to Central Europe AC net through Poland.
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John Larkin's kind of logic, transporting people like him to Antarctic woul d work out equally well. Probably better for the rest of us than him but th at merely my non-denialist opinion, and thus irrelevant.
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what it would take to get "it starting to get cold and dark".
red giant - which is about 4.8 billions years int the future - and survive that before it got cold and dark enough to make nuclear power necessary.
John Larkin keeps on making this claim, and I keep on pointing out that he is wrong.
makes the obvious point that we are not going to flip back into an ice age when the atmospheric CO2 concentration is above 280ppm.
There is an academic argument that the current interglacial might have been a long one, even if we hadn't pushed up the the atmospheric CO2 level, but since we have it isn't worth thinking about.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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"Greenies" are rabid clinate fundamentalists. They are noisy, but there are n't many of them and nobody with any sense takes them seriously.
Politically they do seem to be on the left, but they are a little too irrat ional to fit into the mainsream left-wing tradition
I wonder what krw thought that he was saying there. Any transmission grid h as a capital cost, and you have to pay interest on that capital - and payi ng for the poles and wires represents half my electricity bill. Long distan ce links are expensive, but they are clearly worth having (which is why eve rybody has them).
Australia is one of them. In Europe there is a 730km link under constructio n to run across the North Sea from Norway to the UK.
Te Germans were thinking about building solar farms in North Africa and run ning a link across the Mediterranean through Italy and Switzerland to Germa ny.
It seems to mean direction of current flow in this context.
So is 10GW. The 730 km North Sea link is planned to carry up to 1.2 GW. The Basslink in Australia is 370km and carries 0.5 GW (with short term - up to 4 hour - peaks to 0.63 GW.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Lefties. The destroyer of countries and killer of millions.
Righties have done well too. Psychopathic politicians from both ends of the political spectrum have killed lots of people and wrecked numerous countri es.
Trump doesn't seem to have killed all that many people yet, but his ignoran t enthusiasm for trade wars definitely seems to be putting a crimp in the g lobal economy. He claims that he is protecting American jobs but that parti cular medicine puts Americans out of work.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
more explaining, less complaining.
-- When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.
Facts, man, facts. I know lefties don't care about such details.
Krw doesn't actually know anything - he has just got fixed convictions, whi ch he can't correct, even when they are flat out wrong.
One of them is that world can be divided into righties and lefties - or rig hties and wrongies in his toy universe.
He wouldn't recognise a detail if it bit his behind, but he thinks that he can get away with complaining that other people don't respect the fine deta il in his delusions. It makes him look like the idiot that he is, but he's not equipped to recognise this, or anything else that hasn't already been p rogrammed into his tiny world view.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
For those interesting in HVDC link control, take a look at
When powered from the left side, the left SCR module acts as an ordinary 6 pulse rectifier producing a positive line voltage. When powered from the right side, the right SCR module generates a negative voltage on the line. Some care is needed when switching power direction so that the stations are not trying to force the line into opposite polarity.
No such problems with VSCs.
"Some states could suffer the coldest air in a generation, the National Weather Service said."
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Then you need to rethink; it's called 'climate change' for a reason, and with record high average temperatures, AND extreme cold, it means BOTH extremes will whammy the fields, flocks, fisheries that are your food sources.
Oh, you're on the left coast? No cold for you, then, it's local to central/east US.
John Larkin hasn't worked out that global warming comes with changes to global weather patterns, and that average warming can coexist with brief unusually cold episodes in particular places that reflect unusually larger excursions in polar air-streams.
He probably never will. His capacity for critical thinking and joined-up logic never seems to have been developed - Tulane may be to blame, but the Florida secondary education system may not have given them much to work with.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
The reason is that "global warming" didn't follow the models.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
No, the reason is that the single-parameter 'temperature' is the focus of the 'global warming' phrase, and entire multiparameter weather systems are expected to diverge from historic norms.
Things like hurricane growth, flooding in Pakistan, heatwaves in Moscow, aren't all covered by 'warming' but are by 'climate change'.
Be terrified. That's what they want.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
The warming of our planet is not about terror, or about word choice, or about 'them' or 'what they want'. It's real, and as big as our planet. Being silly doesn't help. Set the inconclusive hints and suggestions aside, in poker the game is about the cards. Everything else is important only when you're running a bluff.
That's what John Larkin's favourite denialist websites him.
No serious advocate of the reality of climate change wants to terrify anybody. They just want people to recognise that it is happening and starting doing stuff to slow it down and possibly even reverse it.
Terror isn't usually a useful emotion - it can motivate people to do stuff quickly, but it doesn't help them think about what they are doing.
Climate change is a slow-moving disaster, and concern is quite enough to motivate the deliberate actions that should be being carried out now.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Wrong. There are lots of models, and the climate change observed so far fit s most of the them which happen to predict much the same sorts of trajector ies.
The IPCC reports spell this out
You need to read up on the Younger Dryas
which happened when the world as a whole was warming at the end of the last ice age, but the Gulf Stream got turned off for 1300 years in the process.
"The change to glacial conditions at the onset of the Younger Dryas in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, between 12,900?11,500 calendar years BP, has been argued to have been quite abrupt.[12] It is in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding Older Dryas interstadial. It has been inferred that its end occurred over a period of a decade or so,[1
3] but the onset may have even been faster.[14] Thermally-fractionated nitr ogen and argon isotope data from Greenland ice core GISP2 indicate that itsDryas[12][15] than today. "
Quite a bit of local cooling while it lasted. The film "The Day after Tomor row" seems to have pinched the idea (not that I've seen the film).
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney .
Why is the West Side Highway still above sea level? Why are polar bears thriving? Why are crop yields up so much? Why aren't billions of Indians and Americans now starving? Why does it still snow in England? Why haven't we run out of oil or gas or copper or cobalt?
Doomday predictions have always been profitable, and they are now running at industrial scale. There's a lot of money and power involved; that distorts everything.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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